For Immediate Release
October 21, 2009

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center has honored five distinguished alumni with its annual Paul R. Dean Award. The award, which is named for former Law Center Dean Paul R. Dean, who died last year, is given to outstanding alumni who have exhibited leadership to Georgetown Law and the legal profession.

This year’s recipients of the Paul R. Dean Award:

 

Pascal C. Chadenet (Class of 1988)

Chadenet is a partner at Salans, a multinational law firm located mainly in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. He is one of seven members of the firm’s Global Managing Board, responsible for defining the firm’s strategy and overseeing its implementation. He practices primarily in French and cross-border acquisitions, private equity transactions, banking and finance. Chadenet is an assistant professor of financial law at the Université du Maine and at EESEC. He obtained a Master in Philosophy from the University of Paris X, a Master in Mathematics at the University of Paris VII, a law degree at the University of Paris I, and an LL.M. from Georgetown. He began his legal career at the Paris office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher and joined Salans in 2000. He has served as chairman of the Georgetown Law European Law Alumni Board for the past three years. Under his leadership, the board has been very active in the organization of a Corporate Counsel Institute in London in 2010.

 

 

 

Cheryl M. Long (Class of 1974)

Long is a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and has served the Court since her investiture in 1988. She has worked in all five divisions of the Court, including leadership positions as Presiding Judge of the Tax Division and Presiding Judge of the Probate Division. After graduating from the Law Center, she clerked for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson, III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She then worked at the Justice Department, representing the EPA in both criminal and civil environmental enforcement cases. In 1985, she was selected as director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. President Reagan nominated her to the bench in 1987. Long graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1971. She is a charter member of the Georgetown Law Board of Visitors and is now a member emerita. In 1999, she was honored with the Law Center’s Annual Alumnae Achievement Award.

 

 

E. Robert Lupone (Class of 1984)

Lupone became vice president and general counsel of Siemens Corporation in 1999, and was promoted to senior vice president in 2000. In 2008, he was named general counsel for the Americas for Siemens AG. He is responsible for the legal and compliance functions of Siemens USA and the Siemens legal departments in Canada, Mexico and South America. He is a member of the Investment Committee and Compliance Review Board of Siemens Corporation. Since 1992, he has held other positions in the Siemens U.S. legal department, including senior counsel, corporate transactions and general counsel, Siemens Medical Systems. Before joining Siemens, he was vice president and general counsel of Price Communications Corporation and practiced corporate and securities law. A graduate of Brown University, he is a member of the board of advisors of the Georgetown Law Corporate Counsel Institute and is serving as chairman of the 25th Reunion Fund Committee for the Law Center Class of 1984.

 

 

Barbara A. Moulton (Class of 1989)

Moulton is the assistant dean for public interest programs at Georgetown Law, where she has directed the Office of Public Interest and Community Service (OPICS) since its creation in 1996. OPICS serves as the primary career office for students interested in exploring public interest and government legal opportunities and coordinates the Law Center’s extensive pro bono program, including the Pro Bono Pledge. Moulton is the adviser to the student-run Equal Justice Foundation, which raises money for and administers the school’s summer fellowship program, and serves on the faculty-student Public Interest and Career Services Committees. She is a member of the Washington Council of Lawyers and is the chair of the Public Service Law Network advisory board. Moulton earned a B.A. in mathematics from Assumption College in 1981. After graduating from Georgetown Law in 1989, she joined the litigation group at Ropes & Gray in Boston and was a staff attorney at the Alliance for Justice from 1991 to 1995.

 

 

Donald L. Waite (Class of 1959)

Since 2004, Waite has served as a business consultant to Seagate Technology, the world’s largest disc drive manufacturing company. From 1998 to 2004, he served as Seagate’s executive vice president and chief administrative officer. He joined Seagate in 1983 as vice president and chief financial officer. The following year, he was promoted to senior vice president. He has over 50 years experience in finance, accounting, operations, legal and administrative functions. Before joining Seagate, he was chief financial officer at several high technology companies. After beginning his professional career with Arthur Andersen, he sent 12 years with Bell & Howell, rising to the position of vice president and chief financial officer. Waite earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Creighton University in 1954. He is a former member of the Georgetown University board of regents and currently serves on the Georgetown Law board of visitors.

 

About Georgetown University Law Center 

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools. It has the largest full-time faculty in the nation and is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body representing more than 60 countries.